The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

Many backed controversial president Jair Bolsonaro. That doesn’t mean they want a theocracy. Petra Costa, director of the recent documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, offers a lens through which to ...

Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa’s latest documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, explores the impact of evangelical Christianity on Brazil’s political landscape. Once a small minority, evangelicals ...

When I watched Petra Costa’s Oscar-nominated 2019 documentary The Edge of Democracy, it was impossible not to be struck by the similarities between her native Brazil’s slide toward authoritarianism ...